Precarious Eating : Narrating Environmental Harm in the Global South.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stanley, Ben Jamieson.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food in mass media.

Food security--South Africa.

Food security.

Food security--India.

Food security--Developing countries.

Ecocriticism.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2024.

Summary:

"Precarious Eating asks how recentering global South representations of food might shift understandings of environmental precarity. Taking up a diverse range of novels, films, scholar/activist writings, intellectual histories, and cookbooks, Ben Jamieson Stanley connects the ethics of eating to histories of empire and apartheid, uneven globalization, gender and sexuality, and global South experiences of climate change"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. Narrating precarity through food and hunger

Part I. Eating and environmental precarity in India. From famine to farmer suicides : precarity and gastronomic desire in representations of Indian agriculturalists

Nutmeg and disordered eating : reframing climate change

Part II. Environmental politics of consumerism and cuisine in South Africa. Hunger versus taste : fishing and foraging in a tourism economy

Queer/vegan reading : consumption and complicity from supermarket to butcher shop

Part III. Gastrohydropolitics and climate imaginaries. Purity and porosity : speculating urban water justice and future diets.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4529-7212-5

1-4529-7211-7

OCLC:

1453401917